REST stands for Representational State Transfer. REST-style architectures consist of clients and servers. Clients INITIATE requests to servers; servers process requests and return appropriate responses. Requests and responses are built around the transfer of REPRESENTATIONS of resources. A resource can be ESSENTIALLY any coherent and meaningful concept that may be ADDRESSED. A representation of a resource is TYPICALLY a document that captures the current or intended state of a resource.Apache Sling is RESTful framework to access a java content repository over http protocol.

REST stands for Representational State Transfer. REST-style architectures consist of clients and servers. Clients initiate requests to servers; servers process requests and return appropriate responses. Requests and responses are built around the transfer of representations of resources. A resource can be essentially any coherent and meaningful concept that may be addressed. A representation of a resource is typically a document that captures the current or intended state of a resource.Apache Sling is RESTful framework to access a java content repository over http protocol.